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SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Voyages, territoires, frontières » Partie 1 (16 pts) : prenez connaissance des documents A, B et C et traitez le sujet suivant en anglais : Write a commentary on the three documents (about 500 words): taking into account the specificities of
SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Voyages, territoires, frontières » Partie 1 (16 pts) : prenez connaissance des documents A, B et C et traitez le sujet suivant en anglais : Write a commentary on the three documents (about 500 words): taking into account the specificities of the documents, analyse how immigrants’ visions of America shape their aspirations and experiences. Partie 2 (4 pts) : traduisez le passage suivant du document B en français : “Tell him you’re not going,” Betty said in the kitchen while the children fought over the remote control in the living room. “What does he mean life is too hard here? If life was not hard for us back home why did we leave our countries and come here?” “He thinks it’s better for a person to suffer in their own country than to suffer somewhere else.” “Ha! Please, don’t make me laugh. He really thinks suffering in Cameroon is better than suffering in America?” (l. 36-42) 25-LLCERANPE2 Page 2 sur 9 DOCUMENT A What is this land America, so many travel there I’m going now while I’m still young, my darling meet me there Wish me luck my lovely, I’ll send for you when I can And we’ll make our home in the American Land 5 Over there the women wear silk and satin to their knees Children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees Gold comes rushing out the rivers straight into your hands If you make your home in the American Land There’s diamonds in the sidewalk, there’s gutters lined in song 10 Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long There’s treasure for the taking, for any hard working man Who’ll make his home in the American Land I docked at Ellis Island in the city of light and spire Wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire 15 Made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands We made our home in the American Land There’s diamonds in the sidewalk, there’s gutters lined in song Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long There’s treasure for the taking, for any hard working man 20 Who will make his home in the American Land The McNicholas, the Posalski’s, the Smiths, Zerillis too The Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the